Lighter hues of blue — like sky blue, baby blue, and powder blue — can look effortlessly great with whites, blacks, browns, and darker tints of blue but those are not the only colors you can best pair them with. Bright to deep reds, oranges, mint and lime green, olive green, and even mustard yellow are great colors to wear them with. Orange, particularly, might seem a little out there, but when paired correctly (for example, orange dress with pale blue denim jacket), you'd really be making a statement.
Lavender and even a deeper midnight blue are some other great colors to combine with lighter blues. Granted lilac and light blue may be unconventional but they feature a soft and elegant look that's hard to beat. For NYC-based celebrity stylist Soneca Guadara, robin's eggs blue is her go-to shade when winter draws to a close. As she told InStyle, "I've incorporated the color by wearing it as a knit sweater to wearing it as a dress and adding a beige boot."
It's easy to disregard the more bright and middle-tier shades of blue — like royal blue, Persian blue, or Mexican blue — when you're putting an outfit together, mainly because the colors are bold in and of themselves. But this doesn't mean they don't pair well with other hues. In fact, royal blue and cherry-red make for an aesthetically pleasing ensemble. So do the blends of royal blue and teal or honey yellow.
